Quality of Care

Public reporting of clinical outcomes gives consumers access to important information about the quality of care provided in hospitals.

The data is available on numerous websites, helping consumers make well-informed decisions about their medical care. As an organization entrusted with providing healthcare in the community, we feel that it is our utmost responsibility to ensure the quality of care that we provide.

When it comes to heart attacks and heart failure at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, the score pertaining to the quality indicators of care is one hundred percent – a score that is well above the national average and in some cases, the state average. Two major factors behind this score are:

1. Our physicians best optimize the medications and treatments that our patients need, and
   
2. We enable our nurses and staff to double-check and cross-check patients so that nothing is overlooked.

Listed below are the percentages of patients who received selected endorsed medical interventions at EMH between January 2011 and December 2011, as compared to state and national averages during 2011.

Heart Attacks	NATL	STATE	EMH
Heart attack patients given aspirin at discharge	99%	99%	100%
Primary PCI received within 90 minutes of hospital arrival (angioplasty)	94%	95%	100%
Statin prescribed at discharge	98%	98%	100%

Heart Failure	NATL	STATE	EMH
Heart failure patients given discharge instructions	93%	95%	100%
Heart failure patients given an evaluation of left ventricular systolic function	99%	99%	100%
Heart failure patients given ACE inhibitor or ARB for left ventricular systolic dysfunction	96%	97%	100%

For more comparative hospital data, visit www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov.

Awards

	Elmhurst Memorial Hospital is Joint Commission-certified for Acute Myocardial Infarction, Congestive Heart Failure, Stroke (Primary Stroke Center) and Inpatient Diabetes.
	Elmhurst Memorial Hospital has received accreditation in Echocardiography in the area of Adult Transthoracic by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission.